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Florida’s Turnpike may have eight-lane future

The state’s Department of Transportation feels your pain, as it’s reviving plans to expand the turnpike in Palm Beach County with additional lanes from Boca Raton to Palm Beach Gardens.

Don’t get too excited, though.

Construction money isn’t available yet, but the DOT wants to start work over the next five years on $46 million in designs for widening the turnpike to eight lanes up to PGA Boulevard.

“Depending on funding availability and timing of these improvements, we may widen to six lanes in the near term and complete the widening to eight lanes later in the future when it is needed,’’ said Randy Fox, the intermodal systems development manager for Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise.